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How do women balance work and family? Ambitious women can strike a balance between work and family / India Knight -- Pressure from husbands leads women to sacrifice career for family / Pamela Stone -- Stay-at-home moms use various strategies to counter social stigma / Karina S. Moe and Dianna J. Shandy -- Planning can help working mothers stay on the career fast track / Mary Ann Mason and Eve Mason Ekman -- How do men balance work and family? Fathers are spending more time caring for their children / Margaret O'Brien -- Men are discouraged from work flexibility and parental leave / Eve Tahmincioglu -- Managerial support helps fathers balance work and family / Brad Harrington, Jamie Ladge and Fred Van Deusen -- Finances factor into increase in stay-at-home dads / Katherine Shaver -- Mothers are key to promoting father involvement / Kerry Daly, Lynda Ashbourne and Linda Hawkins -- How do government policies affect the work-family balance? Government support for work-family balance is a myth / Ellen Bravo -- Programs supporting working families will boost the economy / Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams -- Family-friendly measures can improve worker productivity / Lotte Bailyn -- Results of work-life balance policies are mixed / Paula Brough et al. -- Necessity of having two incomes puts families at financial risk / Elizabeth Warren -- High taxes put the middle class in peril / Todd Zywicki -- Family security insurance would ease work and family challenges / Workplace Flexibility 2010/Berkely Center on Health, Economic and Family Security -- How does lack of work affect families? High unemployment among men drives more women into the workforce / Alice Gomstyn -- Anxieties about changing gender roles fuel the "Mancession" myth / Alice O'Connor -- Recession leads men to rethink their traditional breadwinner role / Catherine Holahan -- Women face unique challenges in the poor economy / United States Congress Joint Economic Committee.